Vevay Times and Switzerland County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 50, Vevay, Switzerland County, 19 November 1840 — Page 1

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VEVAY, INDIANA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1840.

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letter,) got up and followed me.—“Are you unwell, Oliverl” said she, as (tie door dosed after us. 1 answered her by putting out the eyes of an unlucky dog with a flood of expressed essence of cavendish. “I wish,” said she, “Mr. A. had a spit box in his pew." "So do I.” We footed it homo in moody silence. 1 was sorry my wife had lost the sermon, but how could J help ill These women aro so affectionate—confound them—no, I don’t mean so. But she might have known what ailed, me, and kept her seat.

swarm escaped from her own cradle, than she hurries away in search of her rivals, and exerts herself with the utmost eagerness to destroy them.

The Inst of tbs Mandans.

The Mother or Gem. Greeks. —Among the many ladles who distinguished themselves for their patriotism, charity, and other good qualities, in our Revolution; there is one whose name ought not to bo forgotten,- and who, in my opinion, it equal in merit to my that flourished in our country, and there were many at that time. About the commencement, of our Revolution, and aa soon as it was ascertained that Nathaniel Greene, (afterwards General Greene.) intended to join our army in defence of his’ country, a deputation of Friends, (commonly called Quakers, and to w hose society he then belonged] by order of their meeting, waited on him to endeavor to,dissnade -him from il, and after listening to all their arguments on the subject he informed them that he felt an irresistible propensity nut to bo got'over, for joining his breteren in arms. He thanked them for .the interest they had (aken in his welfare; but ho could not comply with’their request. When the .deputation, look an afloetionato leave, and left him, his mother, who had been listening with all the ty of a fond* parent, used her beat endeavors to prevail lipon him to stay at home, when ha" told her il waa impottiLlf. After a ; paoso aha burst into a flood of (ears,: with this reuarkabla observation: "Well, Nathaniel, if thee must go, it is possible that! may hoar of thy death, and if it be God's will that lt>hal( so happen, Ihopa I shall not have ihn 'mortification to hear oftheo* being wounded in the back.*' Comment is hntdless—;a Spartanmother could not have said more; but, Mrs. Greene standi prominently superior to the mothers of antiquity, as her education waa so different —she tom (redo cArufian.

Corner of ferry and Marti tlnclt, If ray, Indiana,

“The Mabdons were uniformly well and even gorgeously cUd. The. fops of our cities would have made a pitiable figure among their flawing robes, and fringed leggini. The men kilted the buffalo, the deer, the elk, and the antelope, and women converted the skins into garments softer, finer, and much more durable than cloth. .-The white clay of the prairies gave them the whiteness of euow, .There could not be a more .noble or pictureeqe figure than a Mandan on horseback, in his gala dress. We have him before onr mind’s eye now. From lira crown of his bead jo the crupper of bis hone streams a long tissue of swan’s feathers. The steedwearaa coronal of the same material, and prances proudly beneath his rider. ‘ He deserves the distinction, for be Is of the best blood of Barbary; in no wise deteriorated by its transmission" through Andalusia and. Mexico. His saddle .is iacushion of the pfiest doe-skin, bis crupper of the same, as well as tho reins, curiously' inwrought with porcupine quills. A hundred hawk bells jingle from The bridle. From each corner of his mouth suspends the scalp of a stain foeinan. The rider wears a loose, white tonic, which leaves the arms bare, and over it Is a rope, which rather graces than hide's Iris person.: In his head are the feathers of tho war-oaglo, denoting,the number of the enemies be has slain, otherwise he would not dare to wear diem—the women of the village would pluck them from bis head — Certain small painted sticks, affixed in like manner to his lop-knot, indicate the number and manner of his woundd; A nccklacedf grizzly bears claws encircles, his neck. His robe is covered with hieroglyphics 1 , and tells the history of his life. His logins are fringed with scalp locks, each of which is the price of a hoiso. On his left arm. Is a shield,', of tough bull hide, which will slop an arrow’; or • turn a~ bullet. At bis back bangs bis bow/which will bury every one of the sixty shafts iivtho quiver beside it, to the feather; and in his right hand grasps his quivering lance, twenty feci long; its head.ah entire sword-blade, rnslccT wltbblood. Such is the ‘poor Indian,* ” V / /

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TERMS;

The workers, to the number of 10,000, SO,000, and even 30,000, constitute the great mass ot. the population, and on them devolves the whole labors for the establishment. Theirs is the office of "searching for and collecting the precious fluid winch not only furnishes their daily food as well as that of their young, and the surplus of which is laid up for. winter stores but also the memorials from which they rear their beautiful combs. In the little bosket shaped cavity of their hind legs they bring home the pollen of farinaclous dust of flowers kneaded by the help of the morning dew into liny balls, which forms an important ingredient in the nourishment of tbe brood; and also tho propolis or adhesive gum extracted from willows Ac., with which they attach their combs in the upper part and sides of the hive, and stop every crevice that might stop the winter’s cold. The natural term of the worker’s existence does not extend, wc think beyond 0 or 8 months. It is the opinion of Mr. Bovan that all the bees brought into existence at tho queen’s great laying in spring, died before winter. But many never reach that period. Showers of rain, violent blasts of wind, sudden changes of atmosphere, destroy them in hundreds; in tho clear, cold mornings-and evenings of autumn,' their eagerness for foraging entices them abroad early and late; when lighting on the ground, many arc .chilled ami-quickly perish. And should they escape tho blighting atmosphere at the close of autumn, a bright sunshine in a winter day, when the ground perhaps is covered with show, brings them abroad in multitudes, and tbe half of them never return.

Tobacco, oh Tobacco! But the deeds of that

day arc not sit told yet. After the conclusion of tho service, along camo farmer Ploughshare. He had seen mo go out of church, and stopped at the open window where I sat. “Sick to-day, Mr, !*’ “Uather unwell,” answered I, and there was another lie to the account of tobacco. “We had powerful preaching, Mr. , powerful preaching; sotry that you had to go out." My wife asked him in, and in he came—she might have knotvn he would—but wofnen must, be polite. But she was the sufferer by it. Compliments over, T gave him my chair at the open' window. Down be eat, and fumbling in lits pockets, drew forth a plug of tobacco and commenced' untwisting It. “Then you use tobacco,” said I. “A little occasionally," said he, as he deposited three or four inches in his check. “A neat fence that of yourn," as flood after flood from his mouth bespattered & newly painted while fence, near tho window. “Yes,”, said I, “but I like a darker color.” "So do I,” answered Ploughshare, “and yaller suits my notion—it don't show dirt." And he moistened ray carpet with his favorite color. ..Good, thought I; my wife will ask him agtfin, 1 guess. We were now Eiimmoned to dinner. Former Plougcshare seated himself. I saw Iris long fingers in that particular position in which a tobacco drawer knows how to pul Iris digits when about to unlade, He thou drew them across his mouth—I trembled for the consequences, should he throw such a load upon the hearth or floor. But he had no intention thus to waste his quid, and, shocking to relate, deposited it beside bis plate, on my wife’s damask cloth. - -1

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MISCELL AN V.

One Day and a fauiriti the Life of a Tobacco

How Laws, ark Made.— Jeremy Benlham say« of law: “Scarce any man has the means of knowing a twentieth part of the'law he is bound.by. Doth sort* of law are, kept moat happily and carefully from the knowledgeiof the people: statute law by its very essence. It is the. Judges-that inako the common law. Do you know how they make it! Jost oe a man makes a lawfbr.hts dog. When your dog does any thing you want to break him of, you wait till oe decs it, and then beatlum for it.- Thisis the way yon make laws for your dog; and this is the way the Judges make laws for yon and me. 1 hey wont -tell a man before hand what he should not do; they won’t so much as allow of his beings told—they lie by till be has none Bothering which they say he should hot have done,' and then they hang him for it. What way then has any man of coming at this doglawl Only by |Watehiog.their proceedings; .by observing in what cascjs they bare sent him to jail, in what' cases they have scjzed his goods and so forth. These proceedings' ihey wont publish themselves' —and if any body o’se publishes, them, it is whit they call a contempt of court, and a man > may be sent Jo jail for it. ■

Chcwer.

Ma. Editor:— Do you chew Tobacco! I did . till last Sunday, when I pul my veto on the practice.; The why and Ilia wherefore I have sent, you, hoping that if you are guilty of using the Indian weed; a leaf from my diary may bo the means of reforming you. Satuhdat; Uctober 19, IS33.—-Took iny hat for a walk; wife, as w.ives arc apt to do, began to load me'with messages, upon seeing me ready to go out* Arked me to call at cousin M’e, and borrow for her. jhc, “Sorrows of Wencr.” Hale to have a wife read such natnby pamby stuff—but must bumor lier whims, and concluded tha*. I’d rather she would take pleasure over Wcrtcr’s Sorrows, than employ her longue in making “sorrow” for your bumble servant. Got, to cousin MV door. ■ Now. cousin M. is an old maid, and a DREADpuLlidy woman—>1 ike tidy women well enough, but can't bear your dre.vdrvh bccaiifo I am always in dread while on their premises, lest I should offend their superlative neatness by n.bit of gravel on the soles of .my boot, or such matter.

• -The sole office of the male, or at least the primary one is, to pair with the queen,—lie Is the father of the hire. Indolent and luxurious,, be lakes no part in the internal operations of 'the domicile, and never leaves it with a view of sharing in the labors of the field. When be docs venture abroad it is only in the finest weather, and during the warmest part of the day.— He is easily distinguished from the workers by Ids large size, by his heavy motion in flight, and by his loud humming sound. Ilia life is .extremely short.

This was too much. I pled sickness and rose. There was no lio in the assertion now—I was sick. I retired from the table, but my deparlitre did not discompose-Farmer Ploughshare, who was unconscious of having done wrong. I returned in season to see Farmer Ploughshare replace his quid in his mouth to undergo a second mastication, and the church bell opportunely ringing, called him away before he used his plate for a spit box—for such, I am persuaded, would hare been hisnext motion. I went up stairs and throwing myself on the bed fell asleep. Dreams of Inundations, floods and fire, harrassed me. I thought I was burning and smoked like a cigar. 1 then thought the Merrimae had burst its banka, and was about' to overflow me witlij-its waters. - I could not escape, the water had reached my chin—I lasted it—it was like tobacco juice. 1 coughed and screamed, and awakening found that 1 had bean asleep with a quid in my mouth. My wife entering at the moment, 1 threw away the flit by weed. “Huz, if I were you 1 would not use that stuff any more.” “I won't.” said I. Since Sunday I have kept my word. Neither Fig nor Twist, Pigtail nor Cavendish, have passed my Ups since, nor ever shall they again.

TaB aKCEST CHABOE XOAlSST THE JbWSI.V Aubtsia,— Yteona’correspondeDt of the Data/* gives the'subjoined account of an infamous imputation upon tho'J ews, similar to the affair at Damascus, which has been lately made at Lemberg, in. Austrian Galicia: “A young woman* who had lived as nursery maid in the family of a wealthy. Jew named Lumberger, atTarnon, went to Lemberg, and made a declaration before the.'magistrates that, she bad been kept by tier; master in close confinement foe three weeks; during which time she was bled every other day' by a Jewish surgeon, and her blood used in making unleavened bread. A'police officer was sent to arrest M. Lumberger, but knowing the excellent character of the accused/be look.the precaution of securingalso.tho denouncer. When Ahe accusation pame to be-inveali-f ated, it was proved that /the girl having one ay, while out in. her masters aerrice, received a wound in the head with a stone,'which felt upon her from a house whiefi was building, her master and mistress, instead of sending her to a hospital had her taken cafe of at their own house; treating her as if alia bad been their.owih child, calling in a .catholic physician, who bled her twice, but no - more, as absolutely necessary to save her life. The Servants of the family swore that when ;sho left heir place she went down'on her knees to 31. and Medame Lumberser, to thank them. The ungrateful girl on hehg closely interrogated, confessed the falsehood of her denunciation, and declared that she bad been overcome by the persuasions of her lover. Who had au implacable hatred against all Jews.*’

The Wedding.

A wedding is a ceremony of mingled pain and pleasure, in which anticipation proventatho pain from being positive pain, and recollection precludes the possibility of.unmlxed pleasure.' ] The very bells, merry as their peals are intended to be, convey a tender melancholy, which ia to os inseperable from tho sotmd of a village belfry, whatever be the occasion of their being pul in motion. Then the banquet,, the'wit, the repartee, (be joko/are not'continuous—a'little life sprinkles upon the surface of the conversation—but like the efferveracnce of the champaigns which fills the glasses of the party, it soon subsides into sober tranquility.—There are anxious beans tindir smiling countenances. The pa-' rents look at their daughter and feel bow great, how rich a treasure they are losing, and confiding to another's care. Their minds glance back' to her days of infancy, the progress of her childhood, and now dwell with anxious solicitude upon her entrance into* the duties of womanhood. None but a parent can know what parents; feel upon occasions like this. And then tbe bride gazing with an affectionate, filial and grateful spirit upon the faces of those under whose- parental kindness she has been fostered, still trembling at the magnitude and irrevocability of-the step she has taken, and which must give a color to the whole of her future existence. Then turning her eyes upon her new-made husband, with a glance which seems to'eay—and now I must look for '‘Husband, parent', all in you/’.the reciprocal glance re-assures her—she drinks in confidence and reliance as her eye bends beneath bit—a thousand new feelings agitate her bosom and anticipation gels the better of recollection. The future for a moment banishes the past, and she feels secure on the new throne which she has erected for herself in the heart of a man to whom she has confided her happiness—her all.

Walk in—delivered my meseago, and soiled myself in one of her cane-bottomed chairs, while she rummaged the book case. . Forgot to lake out my cavendish before I entered, and while seated felt the tide rising. No spit box . in the room.; Window closed—floor, carpeltcd—stove varnished* looked to the fire place—full of flowers, and the hearth newly daubed with Spanish brown. Hero was a fix. Felt iho flood of essence of Cavendish accumulating. Began to reason with myself, whether, as a last alternative, it were better to drown the flowers, redaub the heirlh, or flood the carpet. Mouth In the mean time pretty well filled. To add to my misery, she began to ask questions. “Did yon ever read this book. Sir. !” "Yes Ma'am,", said I,in a voice like a frog in the bottom of a well, while I wished book, aunt .and all, were with Pharoah's host in the red sea. “How did Joa like ill" continued the indefatigable querist, threw my head on the back of the chair, mouth upwards, to prevent an overflow, ' "Pretty well," said I. She at last found “The Sorrows of Werter,” and came towards me. *01), dear cousin Oliver, don't put your head on the back fif the chair, now don’t, you’ll grease it and take US'the guihliog.” 1 could not answer her, haring! now lost the power of speech entirely, and ip j cheeks wore distended like those of a toad under a mushroom. “Why, Oliver,” said my persevering tormentor, unconscious of the reason ,of my appearance, “you arc sick, I know Jou are; your faco is dreadfully swelled!” and efore I could prevent her, her harUhornc was clapped to my distended nostrils. As my mouth was closed imperturably, the orifices in my nasal organ were at that lime my only breathing places. Judge, then, what a commotion a full snuff of hartshorno created among my olfactories! I bolted for the door, and a hearty a-chc-he-hee relieved my proboscis, and tobacco, chyle, icc., “all at once disgorged” from my mouth, restored me to the faculty of speech. Her eyes followed me in astonishment, and I returned and relieved my embarassment by putting a load on my conscience. I to!d her 1 had been trying to relieve the tooth-ache by the temporary use of tobacco, while, truth to tell, I never had an aching fang in my head, I went home mortified. SojtoxT tobeso ox.—Friend A , invited myself and wife to take a scat with him to hear the celebrated Air. —— preach. Conducted by neighbor A. to his pew. Mouth, as usual, full of tobacco! and—horror of horror!—found the pew elegantly carpeted, two or three mahogany crickets, and a hat stand, but no spit boil The service commenced, —every peal on the organ was answered by an internal appeal from my mouth for a liberation from its contents; but the thing was impossible. I thought of using my bit for a spit box, then of turning one of the crickets over, but I could do nothing unpercetved, I took out my handkerchief, but in the plealituda of her officious ness, that wife had placed one of her white camhric&.vC# my pocket instead of my bandanna. Hero was dilemma. By the time the preacher had named bis text, nty cheeks'had reached, their utmost tension, 4nd I must spit or die! I arose, seized my hat; and made for (he door. My wife, (confound these women, how they dog ono about,) imagining me unwell, (she might have known

Stbam Fire Exoimb —Tha Mechanics’ Institute, N. Y.j during thcprevalence of insendittrism lost winter, passed a resolution awarding a.gold medal for the, best- plan of a steam ■ fireengine,'.Tba medal was, presented ,toCaprJ. Erncbson, for his plan ;out of four submitted. The successful, plan is that of an. engine weigh—ing less than tiro and a- half (ons,and that with the lowest estimated speed has. a power of lOfr men, and _will throw 3,000 lbs.-of, wsler per-' minute lo a height of !05 feet through a nozzle-' of 1 l-'-i inches diameter. By iacressug the speed to the greatest limit easily and safely ’attainable, the quantity of water thrown may bo much augmented. The Tattler says the ma- - chine is . the most simple in construction evermodeled. The absence of any rotary motion relievo the nccassityof much of the apparatus peculiar to steam engines.' The motion of thewheels in going to a fire, communicates motion jo bellows which give an artificial draft; so that ; in, ten minutes from the.time the torch is ip- ■ plied to the fuel, the steam ts up and ready for work. - '•

Social Economy of a Bee Hire.

A hive consists of queen or mother bee, the workers, varying from 10,000 to 20,000, or 30,0(10, ami the males or drones, from 700 to double that number.

The queen is parent of the hive; and her solo province and occupation consists in laying the eggs from which originate those prodigious multitudes which people a hive, and emigrate from it in the course of llio summer. In the height of the season her fertility is truly astonishing as she lays not fewer than 200 egg* per day, and even mote when the season is particularly warm and genial, and dowers are abundant, and this laying continues, though.at a gradually diminishing rate, (ill the approach of cold weather in October.

Vegetable Silk axd Vegetable \Voot-— These two plants have lately attracted mbch attention in llte lafantl of Martinique, on the account of the - tisanes which may be fabricated from the fibres attached to their seeds. ■ The first of-these is Atcltpin .Minor, or Vegetable Silk of the West.ladies. We have several plants of the genus asctepics in the United States, properly called- silk wood; perhaps though here at the ftonh it may not produce fibres of the same length or fineness. - In Martinique it perfects its pods in four months, and the plant itself last six years from the planting. , It has been carded and spun. The thread is'as beautiful, glossy and brilliant as silk,'and is strong as cotton. This remark is made, of tbe plant in its -wild state; but it has been cultivated, and both tbe staple, of tho plant and the quantity of the production are extremely improved by cultivation. It will grow, no doubt, in Louisiana. •

To -Mothebb.—Be careful that your.daughters do not early imbibe the impression, that a thorough domestic training to the business of the kitchen is of trifling importande, if not absolute* ly derogatory to their respectability.- Such ini-!, press ions In misses of sixteen are very common,, but how false and mistaken they - are, your own* experience bears ample testimony. -Save your daughters, if you can from the mortification and. misery of entering upon the care of a family*, destitute of the knowledge of what ore the first principles of domestic economy. If they feel that such early discipline is you.cart appeal to one of the most popular female seminaries in the land, where business of the kitchen end wash room is made a prominent branch of acquisition.

An opinion has been entertained that the queen is followed In her progress through the hive by a number of her subjects formed in a circle around her, and these of course hare been regarded as her body guards. The truth is, however, that her bee majesty has no attendants: strictly spkeaking, but whenevershe moves, the workers she encounters in her progress instantly and hurriedly clear the way before her, and all turning their heads towards their approaching sovereign, lavish their caresses upon her with much apparent affection, and touch her softly with their allcnutc; and these circumstances, which may bo observed every hour in the day, have given rise to the idea of guards.—On one occasion we gave her subjects an opportunity of testifying their courage in her defence, as well as their zeal and affection. Observing her laying her eggs in the comb next to the glass of the hive, we gently but quickly opened the pane and endeavored to seize her. But as soon as the removal of the glass afforded room, while shut it was almost in contact with her back, and before wo could accomplish our purpose, they threw their bodies upon her to the number of a hundred, and formed aconoover her of such magditude that she could not be less than two inches distant from any part of lbs surface.

In 1760, the Grand Master of the Knights of Malta, sent as a present, a most rich and costly bracelet of rubies to Madame du Frcnoy, a French lady of great beauty, la token of her extraordinary and gallant conduct when an Algerine Corsair attacked the vesse I in which she was a passenger. The lady was in a polacca, bound to Genoa, and the Algerine coming alongside poured in a broadside and then grappling with her, a number of Algerines boarded her swotd in hand. The crow were about to submit to the enemy when Mad am o du Frenoy snatched a sabre from a wounded sailor, and wielded it with astonishing courage and effect. The crew, animated and inspired by such an unexpected example of female valor, fought with enthusiasm, killed several of the pirates and drove the remainder back to their vessel.— When this lady reached tho shore, she was every where hailed with acclamations of the populace. Tho Marquis do St. Christeaux waited upon her and with his own hands placed a crown of laurels upon her head—and a portrait of her was taken for the Queen of France.— Jiotl Jour*

Female Heroslm.

The other plant is the Jtombax .Vbtor, a shrub growing to (he heightb of seven or eight feel. It produces along pod, which contains a kind of wool which the manufacturers of Lyons, to whose inspection it has been submitted, have declared as fine as the wool.,of Thibet. It is easily spun, and the thread is as strong as woolen yarn. Fourteen months are necessary to bring the pods to perfection. It. will probably grow in Florida,

Study asd Sleep.—Mr. Combo eaya that nature hu allotted the darkness of the night for ihe repose of the mind and body. If study or composition be ardently engaged in, towards that period ol the day, lbs increased action of titer brain which always accompanies activity of the; mind, reqnirci a Jong time to subside: and if thepenron be 0/irritable hibiti be will be sleepless for hoars, or tormented with unpleasant dreams.*— If nevertheless, the practice bo contlnned, the want of refreshing repose will ultimately pro-, dtice a stato of irritability of tbo nervous system approaching insanity. It is therefore of great advantage to engage in severe studies early itv the day,and devote two or thrcqhoura preceding bed time, to light reading, music or amusing; conversation.

Electric Telegraph.—A telegraph worked by electricity is in operation on the Great .Western Railway, between Drayton and Paddington, m England, by which news is conveyed at the rale or two hundred miles per or eight thousand times quicker, than light travels during the same period,. As an instance of this wonderful manner in conveying information, it is said that an Irish gentleman left his great coat, with a valuable snuffbox in ope of the pockets, at one station, some sixty miles from London. On arriving in town ho made known his case—the telegraph was set to work, and m less than threp Jioura his coat was in London.-— The gentleman'OQ receiving his coat, exclaimed —By the powers, I may toll this story in Cork, but who will believe itl

We dispersed the mass with our finger, and got hold of her precious person, and kept looking at her for some minutes before we restored the captive to her alarmed defenders,—It is remarkable that this violence was not resented by ijjem, though they coursed over bur hands in •tores, while wo kept hold of their mistress, not one individual used its sting. Tho all engrossing object was the queen, Tho mutual haired of the queen is a striking feature in the natural history -of this insect. Their mutual enmity may bo an unborn disposition with them; for no sooner has the first of the race of a hive about to throw off a second

8Alton's TARtr,— A sailor was once telling of a country where the sun was so hot that the inhabitants used no fire.

“How do they 6i7e their villlet tbonl” said an elderly lady.

"Why, you see," said Jack, "a big glass is figged in the tops of the chimneys, which brings ;he sun in a focus, right into the kettle." "La me, what a euris world,” said the old ady, as she replaced her spectacles on her nose.

The Female Eye.— A modern writer give* the following enumeration of (lie expressions of a female.

' “The glare, the stare, the sneer, the invitation, the defiance, the denial, tbo consent, (he glance of lore, the flash of rage, the sparkling of hope, the languishing of softness, the squint of suspicion, lbs fire of jealoosy, and the lustre of pleasure.”

Life.—Life is but a cheerless winter’s day.— Some merely take breakfast and then slide—others slop to dinner—while a few, linger to sup.

Height op~Foli.t, —To undertake (o measure eternity with a two-fool rule.